You can actually buy copies of Quake, usually in a package with Quake I, II and some flavour of III. Haven't seen doom, but have seen Doom II around still.
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Oh I have a pile of change too.
The thing is, I prefer to pay cash for most things, it helps prevent overspending I've found. Now you spend a day running around, you end up with a pile of change, and me, well change is nothing, so I'll spend it getting junk food or something... likely dropping another $10 or so I could have saved...
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40? In the last 5 years, is that all?
Yeah, there's countless styles of quarters around... there was the change withthe queens crown a number of years back, and now the new dimes.
But, it makes sense to alter the bills, and over time you notice, the changes make them increasingly difficult to counterfit. (And beleive it or not, there is counterfitting of canadian bills, dispite the rate of exchange on 'em)
Personally it doesn't matter. It's all legal tender.
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Just a bit of irony here, while the UK might have the most power economy, the German mark is favoured by international businesses just behind the American Dollar.
Want to know something even more funny?
Organised Crime has a short time to convert any hard cash from marks to euros or they'll be worthless.
Yep. The Canadian bills are heading the same direction, the $10 is already loaded with anti counterfit protections (texture, microprint, embeded fibers, and a multitude of colours).
The US bills however, all use the same ink on the same paper, which means by rights, if you make a close enough ink, you can bleach $1's and make $100's, and print them out.
Personally, I make sure I give at least one new $10 bill in change if posible when someone tenders an American bill... just for thier reaction to our "funny money"
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(I know I'm going to get hit with down moderation for this...)
Look north for a view on how well a $1 coin can suceed. Canada's been useing them over a decade now.
Personally, I think of the $1 coin (and now the $2 coin) as change and more readily spend it... so my spending ends up going up... just to cut down on the weight in my pockets.
Osama got run over by a reindeer
Right outside his cave on Christmas eve
Some folks says there's no such thing as Santa,
But now even the Taliban believes
Osama thought we'd never find him,
But even little children know
Santa knows who's been real naughty,
In those hard Afghani mountains capped with snow
Al-Quieda found him Christmas morning
Face down on that mountain pass.
There were hoof marks on his turban,
And a broken reindeer antler up his HO HO HO HO
Osama got run over by a reindeer
Peein' near his cave door Christmas eve.
You can say there's no such thing as karma
But if you saw those hoof marks you'd believe.
Osama got run over by a reindeer
Now he's not around on Christmas day.
He was hoping he's be meetin' Allah
But the only thing he met was Santa's sleigh.
Well, you pay, yes. However, you do not pay enough to have no limits.
There has to be practical limits for them to make money. It costs them to provide the acess, so they need to find a balance between costs, charges, and users. Either you need to keep growing bigger and bigger, letting the ones who use little bandwidth (your average user) support those who use huge chunks of bandwidth. And in which case, a bad month can bring you to your knees finantually. or, you put limits at some sort of middle ground, where you can cover expenses even if everyone hits the limits.
As for upload bandwidth restrictions, well, of all the things to restrict (Upload, Download, and total transfered bytes) upload, to the average user makes the least amount of impact, unless of course they're trying to serve something.
You purchased a service, under their terms. You don't like the service, don't pay for it. Simple enough. Don't complain that they're not going to preform corprate suicide just to please you though.
Well, actually, for the most part, there is no true difference in the accents, at least in general terms.
In less general terms, yes, there's a number of localised accents (in canada it tends to be the Newfoundland accent, and the accent found in quebec being the biggest), with more in the US, at least in my experiance (mainly due to the more varried peoples settling in differnt parts of the country en mass).
But, after spending nearly an hour talking with a friend from the states (Maryland) I can honestly say I didn't notice much of an accent.
Now relitives from Chicago... there's a noticeable accent... except for one of them, it disapears after about a week dealing with Canadians.
So, no steadfast rule to tell the difference by an accent. Better to just ask if they're american... if they protest, chances are they're Canadian.
Actually, to gain true independance, Canadians had to kill an awful lot of people, and a lot of Canadians were killed.
It wasn't until WWI that Canada became truely accepted as an independant nation. (An Example of this is how Canada was pulled into the war without really having a say)
And the war of 1812, while it's amusing (with the burning of part of the white hourse and all by British and Canadian troops), it was much more of a stalemate than a clear victory for either side.
You know, the question of "Why" shouldn't be asked.... "why not" is a better question.
People arn't getting paid to do this, like many projects it's a "what the hell, let's do it" type thing. But on the whole it's a good thing. The people are doing this are learning new things, whicch they can apply to other projects, which in the end will benifit everyone.
I don't see this as a way to take linux to the main stream, and I don't think anyone should either. It's just a way to play with things and push limits.
Things were so nice and quiet with all this confusion going on...
Sure... the idea's interesting...
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But, it's rather limited isn't it? I mean, I live in a town where 45 mins at a slow walk gets me cross town with no problem at all. If I go any father, I tend to go driving for hours.
Not to mention, I'l living here in Canada. When it snows, what am I going to do with it? That's the same reason I haven't bought a motorcycle.
Nice concept, but quite limited in it's appeal to less varried climats than what I live in.
Regarding our recent announcement of Neverwinter Nights contract termination with Interplay, we can't comment on this, except to say that BioWare is looking forward to releasing Neverwinter Nights on schedule, early in 2002. Development at BioWare is continuing on both Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic as well as on other as yet unannounced projects."
Exaclly. There was no mention of the use of Solar pannels in the story.
So why do people think of enviromentaly friendly technologies have to all rely on Solar Panels?
Do you have to invest energy to create Hydrogen and Oxygen? Yes. Does it have to be Solar? No, not really. We also can produce electricity through tidal power, and wind power. True these sources aren't entirely relyable (unless you happen to be in a nation's capital, wind and hot air is always in excess there) but they'd do the trick, expecially if there were more advances made in those areas.
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You can actually buy copies of Quake, usually in a package with Quake I, II and some flavour of III. Haven't seen doom, but have seen Doom II around still.
One flaw with your comment about respectability.
This story is from The Register.
Oh I have a pile of change too.
The thing is, I prefer to pay cash for most things, it helps prevent overspending I've found. Now you spend a day running around, you end up with a pile of change, and me, well change is nothing, so I'll spend it getting junk food or something... likely dropping another $10 or so I could have saved...
40? In the last 5 years, is that all?
Yeah, there's countless styles of quarters around... there was the change withthe queens crown a number of years back, and now the new dimes.
But, it makes sense to alter the bills, and over time you notice, the changes make them increasingly difficult to counterfit. (And beleive it or not, there is counterfitting of canadian bills, dispite the rate of exchange on 'em)
Personally it doesn't matter. It's all legal tender.
Just a bit of irony here, while the UK might have the most power economy, the German mark is favoured by international businesses just behind the American Dollar.
Want to know something even more funny?
Organised Crime has a short time to convert any hard cash from marks to euros or they'll be worthless.
Yep. The Canadian bills are heading the same direction, the $10 is already loaded with anti counterfit protections (texture, microprint, embeded fibers, and a multitude of colours).
The US bills however, all use the same ink on the same paper, which means by rights, if you make a close enough ink, you can bleach $1's and make $100's, and print them out.
Personally, I make sure I give at least one new $10 bill in change if posible when someone tenders an American bill... just for thier reaction to our "funny money"
(I know I'm going to get hit with down moderation for this...)
Look north for a view on how well a $1 coin can suceed. Canada's been useing them over a decade now.
Personally, I think of the $1 coin (and now the $2 coin) as change and more readily spend it... so my spending ends up going up... just to cut down on the weight in my pockets.
You are one twisted person. Omaha almost puts me off the game unless it's on a hevely moderated server.
Now, give me bridge or mountain... those are sweet...
Only if they'd get Beta 2 out...
Osama got run over by a reindeer
Right outside his cave on Christmas eve
Some folks says there's no such thing as Santa,
But now even the Taliban believes
Osama thought we'd never find him,
But even little children know
Santa knows who's been real naughty,
In those hard Afghani mountains capped with snow
Al-Quieda found him Christmas morning
Face down on that mountain pass.
There were hoof marks on his turban,
And a broken reindeer antler up his HO HO HO HO
Osama got run over by a reindeer
Peein' near his cave door Christmas eve.
You can say there's no such thing as karma
But if you saw those hoof marks you'd believe.
Osama got run over by a reindeer
Now he's not around on Christmas day.
He was hoping he's be meetin' Allah
But the only thing he met was Santa's sleigh.
Well, you pay, yes. However, you do not pay enough to have no limits.
There has to be practical limits for them to make money. It costs them to provide the acess, so they need to find a balance between costs, charges, and users. Either you need to keep growing bigger and bigger, letting the ones who use little bandwidth (your average user) support those who use huge chunks of bandwidth. And in which case, a bad month can bring you to your knees finantually. or, you put limits at some sort of middle ground, where you can cover expenses even if everyone hits the limits.
As for upload bandwidth restrictions, well, of all the things to restrict (Upload, Download, and total transfered bytes) upload, to the average user makes the least amount of impact, unless of course they're trying to serve something.
You purchased a service, under their terms. You don't like the service, don't pay for it. Simple enough. Don't complain that they're not going to preform corprate suicide just to please you though.
For most people, Usenet is that unuseable, due, at least for me, extreamly poor retention in the alt.binaries.* heirarchy.
Now that said... another (popular) alternative is IRC, I'd say it's almost as east as any P2P setup...
Hmm, not sure if the discard property is the last comment, of the elevator would be considered a statement...
r _2 0/
http://hacks.mit.edu/Hacks/by_year/1999/elevato
Well that's one way to play it safe. Good idea... personally, I never to bother asking about nationality. Less important.
Well, actually, for the most part, there is no true difference in the accents, at least in general terms.
In less general terms, yes, there's a number of localised accents (in canada it tends to be the Newfoundland accent, and the accent found in quebec being the biggest), with more in the US, at least in my experiance (mainly due to the more varried peoples settling in differnt parts of the country en mass).
But, after spending nearly an hour talking with a friend from the states (Maryland) I can honestly say I didn't notice much of an accent.
Now relitives from Chicago... there's a noticeable accent... except for one of them, it disapears after about a week dealing with Canadians.
So, no steadfast rule to tell the difference by an accent. Better to just ask if they're american... if they protest, chances are they're Canadian.
Actually, to gain true independance, Canadians had to kill an awful lot of people, and a lot of Canadians were killed.
It wasn't until WWI that Canada became truely accepted as an independant nation. (An Example of this is how Canada was pulled into the war without really having a say)
And the war of 1812, while it's amusing (with the burning of part of the white hourse and all by British and Canadian troops), it was much more of a stalemate than a clear victory for either side.
And yes, I'm Canadian.
This entire story is something worth considering, in many industries.
Today there's some irrational urge to have something that's bigger or faster, thinking that somehow those things make it better.
Tinker with things, fix what needs to be fixed, and leave the rest alone
You know, the question of "Why" shouldn't be asked.... "why not" is a better question.
People arn't getting paid to do this, like many projects it's a "what the hell, let's do it" type thing. But on the whole it's a good thing. The people are doing this are learning new things, whicch they can apply to other projects, which in the end will benifit everyone.
I don't see this as a way to take linux to the main stream, and I don't think anyone should either. It's just a way to play with things and push limits.
Things were so nice and quiet with all this confusion going on...
But, it's rather limited isn't it? I mean, I live in a town where 45 mins at a slow walk gets me cross town with no problem at all. If I go any father, I tend to go driving for hours.
Not to mention, I'l living here in Canada. When it snows, what am I going to do with it? That's the same reason I haven't bought a motorcycle.
Nice concept, but quite limited in it's appeal to less varried climats than what I live in.
Regarding our recent announcement of Neverwinter Nights contract termination with Interplay, we can't comment on this, except to say that BioWare is looking forward to releasing Neverwinter Nights on schedule, early in 2002. Development at BioWare is continuing on both Neverwinter Nights and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic as well as on other as yet unannounced projects."
I'm thinking people are jumping the gun.
Likely not. The opensource d20 license AFAIK doesn't extend to products like computer games.
Big issue would be the setting anyway. The Forgotten Realms is not under the d20 license, so Wizards' lawyers could have a field day.
Exaclly. There was no mention of the use of Solar pannels in the story.
So why do people think of enviromentaly friendly technologies have to all rely on Solar Panels?
Do you have to invest energy to create Hydrogen and Oxygen? Yes. Does it have to be Solar? No, not really. We also can produce electricity through tidal power, and wind power. True these sources aren't entirely relyable (unless you happen to be in a nation's capital, wind and hot air is always in excess there) but they'd do the trick, expecially if there were more advances made in those areas.
Fuel Cell
say it with me "Fuel Cell"
Not solar powered. Chemicals reacting.
That's what you'd have to do with a X-Box... not a Sega system...
Wait until the brass knuckle version comes out...